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Topic: Time delay on the board's clock (Read 9730 times)

The forum clock has consistently been showing the wrong time for as long as I have been around. It is about twelve minutes behind. This is a bit annoying when I am trying to figure out which posts I have read and not.

The forum clock has consistently been showing the wrong time for as long as I have been around. It is about twelve minutes behind. This is a bit annoying when I am trying to figure out which posts I have read and not.

I brought this concern up in a past thread. Basically, one has to accept that Board time is 12 minutes behind, like the Julian Calendar is 13 days behind.

Mor Ephrem is a nice guy. Just say sorry and it will all be ok. Say I had things that were inside troubling me but I didn't know how to express appropriately. I will not behave that way again but I am seeking help.

How many countless generations of regular users have used this time thing consistently, baptizing and sanctifying it? How can you call it a mistake if our Fathers in the faith used it? Are icons merely wood and paint, or do they become something more? We must learn not to be so enslaved to "the world" that we want to imitate them in everything.

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

However, his major issue with the time lapse is that he can't figure out what he's read or not.

You folks ought to realize the significance of the not 11, not 13, but, 12 seconds!

12 tribes of Israel, 12 Apostles,...

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Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

Conquer evil men by your gentle kindness, and make zealous men wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion. With the afflicted be afflicted in mind. Love all men, but keep distant from all men.—St. Isaac of Syria

There are time stamps all over the forum and this is basically a good thing, but it does not help much when the time is wrong and I am browsing and trying to assert (quickly) if someone posted in the thread or not since I last read it, for example when I see it listed in the forum, and so on. I refuse to see this as a good thing and I hope you calendar zealots are joking, but alright I guess it is hard to fix it then. A small issue but itty bitty disturbing.

There are time stamps all over the forum and this is basically a good thing, but it does not help much when the time is wrong and I am browsing and trying to assert (quickly) if someone posted in the thread or not since I last read it, for example when I see it listed in the forum, and so on. I refuse to see this as a good thing and I hope you calendar zealots are joking, but alright I guess it is hard to fix it then. A small issue but itty bitty disturbing.

Jord, they are (hopefully definitely) joking! We like to keep things light & humorous here.

Calendar jokes like that are not funny, and I think that those who make such jokes are afraid to say what they think. It is easier then to say it in the form of a joke. If you are criticised, you can always say that you were not serious.

What I meant when I said I hope you are joking was this: I hope you did not set the forum clock like that on purpose.

Calendar jokes like that are not funny, and I think that those who make such jokes are afraid to say what they think. It is easier then to say it in the form of a joke. If you are criticised, you can always say that you were not serious.

What I meant when I said I hope you are joking was this: I hope you did not set the forum clock like that on purpose.

Perhaps spending some months & hopefully years on the forum will help you understand that we treat this forum like the community that it is. Everyone & their mother (I mean that in the expressional way, not literally) has already posted what they REALLY think about the calendar issues. That's why there is an OC vs NC STICKY on the forum: http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,2233.0.html

So after beating it to death, now we just joke about it. And when we have something further to say, we bring it to the area that it belongs in (the thread I linked to)

Now to the topic at hand. There is no way that we are ignoramus enough to set the clock back by 12 seconds. It was a mistake that was made the last time we did an update to the system and would take the kind of man-hours that no one has time to put into something so miniscule & not all that important. If a 12 second delay on the time stamp somehow doesn't make sense to you & really bothers you, i truly am sorry. But until we get around to fixing it...you'll just have to deal with it.

We all know that (fill in the blank based on your preference) calendarists are evil schismatics deserving only of the fiery torments of hell, but we tolerate them because Christ Himself acknowledged that there would be chaff in with the wheat, so we just secretly rub our hands in glee until they get their comeuppance.

It's a 12 minute difference--not 12 seconds. And 12 is the number of bakers, who obviously prize the sin of gluttony, which is obviously a favored sin of Americans, which obviously shows the western bias for gluttonous sin being promoted by the subtle but ever-pervasive time discrepancy. We see through you, oc.net powers that be!

So after beating it to death, now we just joke about it. And when we have something further to say, we bring it to the area that it belongs in (the thread I linked to)

Now to the topic at hand. There is no way that we are ignoramus enough to set the clock back by 12 seconds. It was a mistake that was made the last time we did an update to the system and would take the kind of man-hours that no one has time to put into something so miniscule & not all that important. If a 12 second delay on the time stamp somehow doesn't make sense to you & really bothers you, i truly am sorry. But until we get around to fixing it...you'll just have to deal with it.

It is okay of course, I just wanted to find out.

As for taking the calendar issue where it belongs: Please do. Nothing could be more boring.

We all know that (fill in the blank based on your preference) calendarists are evil schismatics deserving only of the fiery torments of hell, but we tolerate them because Christ Himself acknowledged that there would be chaff in with the wheat, so we just secretly rub our hands in glee until they get their comeuppance.

It's a 12 minute difference--not 12 seconds. And 12 is the number of bakers, who obviously prize the sin of gluttony, which is obviously a favored sin of Americans, which obviously shows the western bias for gluttonous sin being promoted by the subtle but ever-pervasive time discrepancy. We see through you, oc.net powers that be!

The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

If I put the board at Pacific Standard Time then it shows 10:16:48 PM PM PST

But my computer shows:09:34 PM PST

That disparity of 42 minutes confuses me, so I think that it is later than it is.

I look at my posts and think: Back to the Future. How can I post in the future?So, I keep OC.net on Alaska time so that it reads only 18 minutes slow.

« Last Edit: November 12, 2013, 01:24:09 AM by Maria »

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

In your proper timezone, under look and layout Preferences, put -0.7 as the offset, and it will get you within seconds.

I entered -3.7 and the time is just off by a few seconds now. That is okay. Thanks.I see what you have done. Simple math.

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

dont forget to add an hour for DST, now making is for me on EDT as .39

Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten to do that.

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

dont forget to add an hour for DST, now making is for me on EDT as .39

Since on the Left Coast, in Los Angeles. I am on PDT.I have set the profile time as -2.6It is correct to the minute, but not quite to the second.

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.

The proper offset is now 0.445 for those in the Eastern (US) Daylight Time zone.

How were you able to insert 0.445? I could only insert two and seven tenth (2.7), two and six tenths (2.6), or two and five tenths (2.5). I tried to refine the offset, but I could not go lower than a tenth.

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The memory of God should be treasured in our hearts like the precious pearl mentioned in the Holy Gospel. Our life's goal should be to nurture and contemplate God always within, and never let it depart, for this steadfastness will drive demons away from us. - Paraphrased from St. Philotheus of Sinai Writings from the Philokalia: On Prayer of the Heart,Translated from the Russian by E. Kadloubovksy and G.E.H. Palmer, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1992 printing.